The fruit still life, earlier just part of larger arrangements, had its first heyday in 17 th century Dutch still life painting. The joy in an artistic account of a mixture of domestic and exotic fruits is shown by the partly peeled lemons in these still lives, which add an optical zestto these works. Since Paul Cézanne adopted the apple still life into the canon of his works in the late 19 th century in order to find an artistic challenge in the motif's simplicity, it has been meandering with incessant admiration in works from modern classic to contemporary art. In 1900 the Kunstsalon Bruno and Paul Cassirer in Berlin showed works by Cézanne, among them several apple still lives, for the first time. Even though contemporary art critics did not find much praise for them they left impressive resonance on future generations of painters. Both the German late impressionists, especially Carl Schuch, who made remarkable works with this motif, as well as the expressionists discovered the apple still life for their art. Overshadowed by a long illness, Jawlensky approached the theme that he had already examined in strong colors in 1904 under the influence of late Impressionism, especially the art of van Gogh, once again in the last years of his life. All absorbed by his pictorial "Meditations", Jawlensky's recourse to earlier creations seems like a reminiscence of happier days.